for high Treason for delivering a Petition and a Protestation into the House that this was not a free Parliament since they could not come to vote there as they are bound with out danger of their lives Ianuary 4. Tuesday his Majesty went into the House of Commons and demanded the persons of Master Denzill Hollis Sir Arthur Haselridge Master Iohn Pym Master Iohn Hamden and Master William Stroude whom his Atturney had the day before together with the Lord Kimbolton accused of High Treason upon 7. Articles they had Information and were not then in the House They came in after and great stir was made about this breach of the priviledge of Parliament February 6. Saturday Voted in the Lords House that the Bishops shall have no votes there in Parliament The Commons had passed that Bill before great ringing for joy and Bonefires in some Parishes February 11. Friday the Queene went from Greenwitch towards Dover to goe into Holland with her Daughter the Princes Mary who was lately Maried to the Prince of Orange his sonne But the true cause was the present discontents here the King accompanied her to the Sea February 14. His Majesties Message to both Houses printed by which he puts all into their hands so God blesse us February 14. An Order came that the 12. Bishops might put in Baile if they would and that they should have their hearing upon Friday February 15. they went out of the Tower on Wednesday February 20. Sunday there came a tall man to me under the name of Master Hunt he professed he was unknowne to me but came he said to doe me service in a great particular and prefaced it that he was not set on by any States man or any of the Parliament so he drew out a paper out of his Pocket and shewed me 4. Articles drawne against me to the Parliament all touching my neare conversation with Priests and my endeavours by them to subvert Religion in England He told me the Articles were not yet put into the House they were subscribed by one Willoughby who he said was a Preist but now come from them I asked him what service it was he could doe me He said he looked for no advantage for himselfe I conceived hereupon this was a peece of villany and bid him tell Willoughby he was a villain and bid him put his Articles into the Parliament when he will so I went presently into my inner Chamber and told Master Edward Hide and Master Richard Cob what had befallen me But after I was sorry at my heart that my indignation at this base villany made me so hastie to send away Hunt that I had not desired Mr. Lieutenant to seaze on him till he brought forth this Willoughby February 25. Friday the Queene went to Sea for Holland and her eldest Daughter the Princesse Mary with her March 6. Sunday after Sermon as I was walking up and downe my Chamber before dinner without any slip or treading a wry the sinnew of my right leg gave a great cracke and brake asunder in the same place where I had broken it before February 5. 1628. It was two moneths before I could goe out of my Chamber On Sunday May 15. An. 1642 I made shift betweene my man and my staffe to goe to Church There one Master Ioslin preached with vehemency becomming Bedlam with Treason sufficient to hang him in any other state and with such a particular abuse to me that Women and boyes stood up in the Church to see how I could beare it I numbly thanke God for my patience All along things grew higher betweene the King and the Parliament God send a good issue May 29. foure ships came into the River with part of the Ammunition from Hull August 22. Munday The King set up his Standard at Nottingham August 24. The Parliament having Committed three Officers of the Ordinance and sent two new ones in the roome this day they brake open all the doores and possessed themselves of the stores August 27. Saturday the E. of Southampton and Sir Iohn Culpeper sent from the King to have a Treaty for peace refused unlesse the King would take downe his Standard and recall his Proclamation which made them Traytors September 11. Bishops voted downe and Deanes and Chapters in the lower House That night Bonfires and ringing all over the City Ordered cunningly by Pennington the new Lord Major Ante ult. August about this time the Cathedrall of Canterbury grosely profaned September 9. Friday An Order from the House about the giving of Alhollowes Bread-street The Earle of Essex set forwards towards the King September 10. Bishops c voted downe in the upper House Dubitatur October 15. Saturday resolved upon the question that the Fines Rents and profits of Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes and Chapters and of such notorious Delinquents who have taken up Armes against the Parliament or have beene Active in the Commission of Array shall be sequestred for the use and service of the Commonwealth Oct. 23. Sunday Kenton held Oct. 24. An order from the House to keepe but 2. servants to speak with no prisoner or other person but in the presence of my Warder this common to other Prisoners The Order not sent me till Oct. 26. and I sent a petition to the House for a Cooke and a Butler Thursday October 27. this order revoked Friday October 28. and this granted me October 26. Wednesday my Cookes relation to me of some resolutions taken in the City November 2. I dreamed the Parliament was removed to Oxford the Church undone some old Courtiers came in to see me and geared I went to Saint Johns and there I found the roofe of some part of the Colledg and the Walls cleft and ready to fall downe Wednesday November 9. in the morning 5. of the Clocke Captaine Browne and his Company entered my House at Lambeth to keepe it for publicke service and they made of it November 8. 78. pounds of my Rents taken from my Controuler by Master Holland and Master Ashurst which they said was for maintenance of the Kings Children The Lords upon my Petition to them denyed they knew of any such order and so did the Committee yet such an order there was and divers Lords hands to it but upon my Petition they made an order that my Bookes should be secured and my goods Nov. 10. some Lords went to the King about an accommodation November 12. Saturday A fight about Brainford many slaine of the Parliaments forces and some taken Prisoners The fight is said to begin casually about billetting since this voted in the House for no accommodation but to goe on and take all advantages Novemb. 16. Wednesday an order to barre all Prisoners men from speaking one with another or any other but in the presence of the Warder nâ— goe out without the Lieutenants leave And to barre them the libertie of the Tower Novemb. 22. Tuesday Ordered that any one of them may goe
A BREVIATE OF THE LIFE OF VVilliam Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury Extracted for the most part Verbatim out of his owne Diary and other WRITINGS under His owne Hand Collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry Honourable Persons as a necessary Prologue to the History of His Tryall for which the Criminall part of His LIFE is specially reserved By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquier PROV. 10.7 28 29. The memory of the Just is blessed but the Name of the Wicked shall Rot. The hope of the Upright shall be gladnesse but the expectation of the Wicked shall perish The way of the Lord is strength to the Upright but destruction shall be to the Workers of Iniquity IT is Ordered this sixteenth day of August 1644. By the Committee of the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament concerning Printing that this Booke intituled A Breviate of the Life of William Laud c. bee printed by Michaell Sparke Senior JOHN VVHITE LONDON Printed by F. L. for Michaell Sparke Senior and are to bee sold at the Blew-Bible in Green-Arbour 1644. To the Right Honourable Lords and COMMONS now Assembled IN PARLIAMENT HAving formerly presented Your Honorable Assembly with a large Historicall Collection of the severall Execrable Treasons Conspiracies Rebellions Seditions Oppressions Antimonarchicall practises of our Lordly Prelates in all former and late ages in my Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to Regall Monarchy and Civill Vnitie which gave a fatall blow to the Prelaticall partie I thereupon conjectured my Domesticall Collections of that nature had arrived at a Non ultra But the Death of some eminent Members of the Commons House principally interessed in the Archbishops prosecution inevitably engaging me at a dead lift through the Committees request to make good the grand Charge against this Arch-Prelate and bring him to his long expected Tryall a trouble which I gladly would have declined thereupon the Importunity of diverse Honourable Friends in both Houses whom I could not deny hath beyond expectation in the midst of many other distracting occasions imposed on me this further Trouble of collecting the ensuing Breviate of his Life abstracted for the most part word for word out of his owne Diary and Papers which being a necessary Prologue to the much desired History of his Tryall wherein his Crimes here pretermitted will appeare in their proper Colours was conceived to bee a fitter Fore-runner then Concomitant of it There was one speciall consideration which for a time did somewhat disswade me from this service to wit a misconstruction which some no doubt will make of my publications in this kinde as if they proceeded meerly or principally from malice or revenge of former Injuries and Cruelties inflicted on me by this Archbishops means But my own Conscience and forbearance to meddle with his Prosecution till publikely called and necessitated thereunto acquitting me from any such imputation and the never sufficiently admired Providence of my ever-Gracious God in preserving me safe in the midst of all former troubles imprisonments sufferings reducing me in safetie by an Omnipotent hand beyond all expectation of Friends and Enemies even with honour and triumph from my long close imprisonment and exile in forraigne parts to which this Arch-Prelate had eternally designed me without hopes of Redemption and since that in selecting me above all others by publike authoritie contrary to my inclination and desire to bee both the seizer and peruser of his papers prosecuter of his long delayed Tryall the protraction whereof by many adorable providences was one principall meanes of making good his charge though at first it seemed to disable its proofe I could not in pursuance of this most remarkable worke of Providence but most cheerfully proceed in this imposed Imployment notwithstanding all other Discouragements Impediments which being brought to this perfection I humbly commend to the publike view of the world under your Honours most Noble Patronage to whom I most humbly present it only with this one most Iust and Equitable Request which I beseech You seriously to lay to heart It was once a Proverb but now a sad Complaint that great bodies have very slow motions alas many experimentally feele its verity There are to my knowledg some hundreds of pious Christians quite ruined or much impaired in their fortunes by the Tyrannie and Injustice of this oppressing Arch-Prelate and his Confederates who at the beginning of this Parliament became humble Suitors to it for Reliefe and Reparation of their Dammages Their causes therupon were then to their great expence fully heard and voted at severall Committees many of them reported in the Houses their unjust sentences there ordered to be vacated yea speedy Recompences of their losses Dammages then promised expected But yet now at last after two or three years tedious expectation and sollicitation their sufferings * causes losses are almost quite forgotten themselves like dead men out of mind whom we remember no more farther from any hopes of reliefe then ever being so remote from receiving satisfaction for their wrongs that they still lye under the power of their former illegall Sentences Bressures And if times should alter their Witnesses or Oppressours dye or miscarry as many of them have done or themselves depart this life before their Causes fully determined they and theirs should be left altogether remedilesse and utterly ruined without redresse Now I humbly beseech Your Honours sadly to consider on the one side what an heart-breaking and grand Discouragement it wil be not only to these present Sufferers but to all others in future times to become publike Martyrs for their Country or Religion and on the other side what a great Encouragement it will prove to Tyrants Oppressors in present and future times to exercise all manner of Cruelties and Iniustice if the remedy shall prove almost as bad as the disease and poore oppressed Suppliants in the highest degree find either no reliefe at all or such slow redresse of their grievances as shall quite weare out their patience and remainder of their decaied estates and that even in Parliaments where remedies in former times were most speedy certaine and their Oppressors such Dilatory proceedings against them as shal be equivalent to Impunity and exempt both them their heirs and Executors from rendring Competent dammages to those they have oppressed I confesse the great publicke pressing Occasions Warres and Distractions in all our Realms have bin the chiefe Remora to Your desired speedy reliefe of oppressed Suitors Your punishment of Delinquents and may pleade your just excuse But yet I humbly supplicate You most Noble Senators so farre to commiserate the long unredressed Grievances of these afflicted ones as now at last to allot some vacant dayes each weeke for the finall determination of their discontinued almost forgotten Complaints that they and theirs may not have cause hereafter to lament A failer of Iustice even in the supremest Court of Iustice the undelaied execution whereof both in
blesse him that his eyes may see the Prince safely delivered to the King and State And after it live long in hapinesse to doe them and thee service through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen After this upon the Dukes unhappy voyage to Ree which lost Rochell and all the Protestant Townes in France he made this speciall prayer for him O Most gratious God and mercifull Father Thou art the Lord of Hosts all victory over our Enemies all safety against them is from thee I humbly beseech thee goe out with our Armies and blesse them Blesse my deare Lord the Duke that is gone Admirall with them that Wisedom may attend all his Councells and courage and successe all his enterprises That by his and their meanes thou wilt be pleased to bring safety to this Kingdome strength and Comfort to Religion victory and reputation to our Country And that he may returne with the Navy committed to him and with safety honour and love both of Prince and People Grant this for thy deare sonnes sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen When this Duke was slaine he made this speciall prayer on that occasion much daubed through frequent use with his fingers O Mercifull God thy Judgements are often secret alwayes just At this time they were temporally heavey upon the poore Duke of Buckingham upon me upon all that had the honour to be neare him Lord thou hast I doubt not given him rest and light and blessednesse in thee give also I beseech the comfort to his Ladie blesse his Children uphould his freinds forget not his servants Laye open the bottome of all that irreligious and gracelesse plot that spilt his blood Blesse and preserve the King from danger and from security in these dangerous times And for my selfe O Lord though the sorrowes of my heart are inlarged in that thou gavest this most honourable freind into my bosome and hast taken him againe from me yet blessed be thy name O Lord that hast given me patience I shall now see him no more till we meet at the Resurrection O make that joyfull to us and all thy faithfull servants Even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen But to returne to his Diary where he proceeds thus Wednesday August 27 Mr. Elphinston brought me a very gratious Message from his Majesty upon my Lord Duks death August 30. As I was going out to meete the Corps of the Duke which that night was brought to London Sir W. Fleetwood brought me very gratious letters from the K. Majesty written with his owne hand Tuesday September 19. The first time that I went to Court after the death of the D. of Buckingham my deare Lord The gratious speech which that night the King was pleased to use to me Saturday Sept. 27. I fell sicke and came sicke from Hampton-Court Tuesday September ult. I was sore plucked with this sicknesse c. Munday October 20. I was forced to put on a Trusse for a rupture I know not how occasioned unlesse it were with swinging of a booke for my exercise in private November 29. Felton was executed at Tiborne for killing the Duke and afterwards his body was sent to be hanged in Chaines at Portsmouth It was Saturday and Saint Andrewes even and he killed the Duke upon Saturday Saint Bartholmews even December 25. I preached at Whit-Hall Wednesday December 30. The Statutes which I had drawne for the reducing of the factious and tumultuary election of Proctors in Oxford to severall Colledges by course and so to continue were passed in Convocation at Oxford no voyces dissenting Munday Ianuary 26. The 240. Greeke Manuscrips were sent to London House these I got my Lord of Pembrooke to buy and give to Oxford Saturday night Ianuary 31. I lay in Court I dreamed that I put of my Rochet all save one sleeve and when I would have put it on againe I could not finde it Friday February 6. Sir Thomas Roe sent to London House 20. Manuscripts in Greeke to have a Catalogue drawne and the Bookes to be for Oxford Munday March 2. the Parliament to be disolved declared by Proclamation upon some disobedient passages to his Majesty that day in the House of Commons March· 10. Thursday the Parliament dissolved the King present The Parliament which was broken up this March 10th laboured my ruine March 29. 1629. Sunday two papers were found in the Deane of Paules his Yeard before his house the one was to this effect concerning my selfe Laud looke to thy selfe be assured thy life is sought as thou art the fountaine of all wickednesse repent repent thee of thy monstrous sinnes before thou be taken out of the world c. And assure thy selfe neither God nor the world can endure such a vile Counceller to live or such a whisperer or to this effect The other was as had as this against the Lord Treasurer Master Deane delivered both papers to the King that night Lord I am a grevious sinner but I beseech thee deliver my soule from them that hate me without a cause Aprill 2 Maunday Thursday as it came this yeare about three of the clocke in the morning the Lady Dutches of Buckingham was delivered of her sonne the Lord Francis Villiers whom I Christened Tuesday 21. I preached Wednesday May 13. this morning about three of the clocke the Queene was delivered before her time of a sonne he was christened and dyed within short space His name Charles This was Ascention Eve May 14. The next day being Ascention day paulo ante mediam noctem I buried him at Westminster If God repaire not this losse I much feare it was Descention Day to this State August 14. dies erat veneris I fell sicke upon the way towards the Court at Woodstooke I tooke up my*lodging at my Ancient freinds house Master Francis Windebancke there I lay in a most grevious burning Feaver till Munday September 7. on which day I had my last fit I was brought so low that I was not able to returne towards my owne house at London till Tuesday October 20. I went first to present my humble dutie and service to his Majesty at Denmarke house Munday October 26. After this I had divers plunges and was not able to put my selfe into the service of my place till Palme sunday which was March 21. Aprill 10. The Earle of Pembrooke Lord Steward being Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford dyed of an Apoplexy Aprill 12. The Vniversity of Oxford chose me Chauncellor and word was brought me of it the next morning Wednesday Aprill 28. The Vniversity came up to the Ceremony and gave me my Oath Saturday May 29. Prince Charles was borne at Saint Iames paulo ante horam primam post merediem I was in the house three howres before and had the honour and the happines to see the Prince before he was full one hower old The King sent this Letter to him under the Privy signet to give him notice of the Princes Birth Charles Rex
point of Reliefe and Punishment hath beene the chiefe support of Our Parliaments Honour and of the peoples love and assistance to Parliaments It is one of the principall clauses in * Magna Charta wch Our Ancestors and your Honours have so much contended for and we all have lately Covenanted to maintaine viz. We shall deny NOR DEFERRE TO NO MAN IVSTICE OR RIGHT Let it therfore be put in present reall execution that so none may have cause to take up this mournfull complaint of Solomon I returned and considered all the Oppressions that are done under the Sun and beheld the teares of such as were Oppressed and they had no Comforter Wherefore I praised he dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive c. And this through Gods blessing will bee the speediest way to put a period to our Wars Distractions Grievances and gaine Your Honours highest Reputation Grace Favour with God and all good men Now the good God strengthen both Your hearts and hands to execute speedy * Iustice and Iudgement for all that are oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppresse and Crowne all your publike Councells Enterprises with such happie successe as may occasion all succeeding Generations to blesse God for You as the best-deserving Parliament ever yet Assembled which is the Cordiall Prayer of Your Honours most devoted SERVANT William Prynne A BREVIATE Of the LIFE of WJLLJAM LAVD Archbishop of CANTERBVRIE Extracted out of his owne DIARIE BEfore any entrance made into the relation of the Impeachment or Triall of the Archbishop of Canterburie it will bee neither impertinent nor unnecessary to present the World with a Summary of his life extracted for the most part out of his owne Diary written with his own hand and found in his Pocket upon search of his Chamber in the Tower May 31. 1643. Some passages whereof objected against him at his Triall are here totally omitted and reserved for their proper place to avoyd Repetitions HEE was borne at Redding in Barkshire Octob. 7. 1573. of poore and obscure Patents in a Cottage just over against the Cage which Cage since his comming to the Arch-bishopricke of Canterbury upon complaint of Master Elveston that it was a dishonour the Cage should be suffered to stand so neare the House where so great a Royall Favourite and Prelate had his birth was removed to some other place and the Cottage pulled downe and new built by the Bishop In his Infancie he was like to perish of a disease as he writes but that God reserved him to be a future scourge yea plague to this Church and STATE and for another kinde of Death July 1589. Hee came a poore Scholler to Oxford June 1590. hee was chosen a Scholler of Saint John Baptists Colledge June 1593. hee was admitted a Fellow thereof June 1594. hee proceeded Batcheler of Arts and July 1589. Master of Arts June 4. 1600. He was made Deacon and Aprill 5. 1601. he was made a Priest by Doctor Young Bishop of Rochester Anno 1602. He read a Divinitie Lecture in Saint Johns Colledge maintained by Mistris May May 4. 1603. He was chosen Proctor of the Universitie and on September third next ensuing hee became Chaplaine to the Earle of Devonshire which after proved his great happinesse and gave him hopes of greater preferments as himselfe records July 1604. He proceeded Batchelour in Divinitie His supposition when he answered in the Divinitie Schooles for this degree concerning the efficacie of Baptisme was taken verbatim out of Bellarmine and he then maintained there could bee no true Church without Diocesan Bishops for which Doctor Holland then Doctor of the Chaire openly reprehended him in the Schooles for a seditious person who would un-Church the reformed Protestant Churches beyond the Seas and sow division betweene us and them who were brethren by this novell popish position Decem. 26. 1605. He being the Earle of Devonshires Chaplaine married this Earle to the Lady Rich another mans Wife at Wansteed in Essex which day he puts into the Catalogue of dayes of speciall observance to him both in his Diary and the Manuscript booke of his private devotions October 26. 1606. Docter Ayry of Queenes Colledge questioned him for a Sermon then preached by him at Saint Maries as conteining sundry scandalous and popish passages in it Novem. 16. 1607. He was invested into the Vicarage of Stanford in Northamptonshire Anno 1608. He proceeded Doctor in Divinitie and that yeare August 5. he was made Chaplaine to Doctor Neale then Bishop of Rochester Septem. 17. 1609. he preached his first Sermon to King James at Theobalds October 28. 1609. he was inducted into West-Tilburie in Essex for which he exchanged his Advowson of North-Kilworth in Leicestershire to be neare his Lord of Rochester Dr. Neale who on May 25. 1610. gave him the Rectory of Cuckston in Kent October 2. 1610. He resigned his fellowship in Saint Johns Colledge in Oxford and the same moneth fell sicke of a kentish Ague caught at his new benefice which held him two moneths whereupon he left Cuckston and Novem. 1610. was inducted into Norton by Proxy In the midst of this sicknesse the suite about the Presidentship of Saint Johns began in which there was great Towsing Christmas 1610. The Lord Chancellour Elsmeer complained against him to King James being incited thereunto by Docter Abbot then Archbishop of Canterburie as he writes who alwayes opposed him as foreseeing he would prove a dangerous fire-brand both in Church and State and a bitter Enemy to the Protestant Religion being then commonly reputed in Oxford a man cordially addicted to Poperie and a Papist in heart keeping companny with those who were most Popishly affected May 10. 1611. Hee was chosen President of Saint Johns Colledge by one casting voyce after much canvasing which election was questioned and heard for three houres space before King James at Tichburne August 29. being the day of beheading Saint John Baptist Novem. 3. Hee was sworne the Kings Chaplaine April 18. 1614. Doctor Neale Bishop of Lincolne gave him the Prebend of Bugden and after that the Arch-Deaconrie of Huntington Decemb. 1. 1615. Nov. 1616. King James gave him the Deanerie of Glocester and in March following he set forward with the King into Scotland and returned a little before him August 2. 1617. hee was inducted into Ibstocke in Leicestershire in his returne from Scotland Iune 1618. He set up a great Organ in Saint Johns Chappell and April 2d 1619 He fell suddainly dead for a time at Wickham in his returne from London to Oxford Ian. 22. 1620. He was installed Prebend of Westminster having had the advouson of it ten yeares before June 3. 1622. He writes thus in his Diarie The Kings Gracious speech unto mee concerning my long service He was pleased to say Hee had given me nothing but Glocester which
received a Command that I should repaire to the Reverend Bishop of Winchester and that I should demand what he would have done in the Cause of the Church and that I should bring backe his Answer especially in the 5. Articles c. Aprill 10. being Sunday after the Sermon ended I went to the Bishop who was at his Chamber at White-Hall I related what things I had received in Command He gave mee an Answer Aprill 13. I related to the Duke of Buckingham what the Bishop of Winchester answered At the same time he certified me what the King had resolved concerning the Bishop of Durham Clerke of the Chappell to the King and concerning a successor Aprill 17. Easter day the Bishop of Durham being sicke I was by the said Bishops Petition to the illustrious Earle of Psmbrooke Lord Chamberlain assigned to serve the Kings Majestie in the place of the Clarke of the Closet which Office I performed till the first of May Aprill 23. Burton delivered a writing to the King An. 1625. May 11.19.29 I writ Letters to the Duke of Buckingham into France May 30. I went to Chelsey to the Dutches of Buckingham June 5. I received Letters from the Duke of Buckingham out of France I answered them the next morning June 12. Queene Mary passing the Seas arrived on our shore about seaven of the Clocke in the afternoone GOD grant shee may bee an Evening and happie Starre to our world June 25. All the Bishops which were then present were brought in to kisse the Queenes hand Shee received Us with highest savour July 3. King James appeared to me in Dreames I saw him only swiftly passing by Hee was of a cheerfull and serene countenance In the passage he saw mee beckned to me smiled and suddainly was withdrawne out of my sight Iuly 7. 1625. Richard Mountague was brought into the lower House of Parliament c. July 9. Saturday it pleased most Excellent King Charles to intimate to that House that those things which were there spoken and determined concerning Mountague without his Privitie did not please him Iuly 11. The Parliament was translated to Oxford by reason of the plague Iuly 13. I went into the Countrie to the House of my most deare Friend Francis Windebanke As I was traveling thither Richard Mountague casually met me I was the first who certified him of the Kings favour towards him Iuly 31. I fell I knew not how in the Parlour at Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford and hurt my left Shoulder and Huckle-bone August 21. I staied at Brecon in Wales that night in a Dreame the Duke of Buckingham seemed to me to ascend into my bed where he carried himselfe with much love towards mee after such rest wherein wearied men are wont exceedingly to rejoyce And likewise many seemed to mee to enter the Chamber who did see this Not many dayes before I seemed to see the Dutches of Buckingham that Excellent Lady in a Dream at first she was much perplexed about her Husband but afterwards merry and rejoycing that she was freed from the feare of abortion that in due time she might be a mother again Aug. 24. My Coach was twice overturned the first time I was in it the later it was emptie Decemb. 4. I was very much troubled by Dreames The Duke of Buckingham his servants and family wholly tooke mee up All things were not well ordered The Dutchesse being ill calls out her maids and goeth to bed Det Deus meliora Septem. 11. I dreamed that Dr. Theodore Price admonished me concerning Ma and that he was unfaithfull towards me and revealed all things which he knew and that I should beware of him and no more c. Afterwards I dreamed of Sacke Croe that he was dead of the Plague when as he had not been long with the King Septem. 26. I Dreamed of the marriage of I knew not whom at Oxford all present flourished with greene garments I knew none but Thomas Flaxney presently after without any wakening that I know of I saw the Bishop of Worcester having his head covered with linnen clothes He friendly perswaded me that I would dwell with them at the place where the Marches of Wales was then kept but not expecting my answer himselfe answered that hee knew I could not live so meanely Nov. 17. Charles the Duke of Buckinghams sonne writes hee was borne whom God blesse with all the good things of Heaven and earth Janu. 4. and 23. I met to consult of the Ceremonies of the Kings Coronation And in January hee compiled the booke for the Kings Coronation wherein hee altered the Coronation Oath executed the Office of the Deane of Westminster at the Coronation instead of Dr. Williams then Deane of Westminster Bishop of Lincolne and Lord Keeper of the Great Seale whom the King would not admit to be present at the Ceremonies of his Coronation Ianu. 29. I understood what the Duke of Buckingham collected King Charles had determined with himselfe concerning the Cause Booke and opinions of Richard Mountague I seeme to see a Cloud arising and threatning the Church of England God for his mercy dissipate it Febr. 6. I preached before the King and Nobles at the beginning of the Parliament Feb. 11. 17. There was a Conference at the Duke of Buckinghams in the presence of many Noble men about Mountagues Appeale and his Popish and Arminian Tenents therein broached Bishop Morton and Doctor Preston opposing them and he with Doctor White defending them Febr. 21. The Duke of Buckingham writes he sent for me to come to him then hee gave mee in command that c. Febr. 21. I sought the Duke at Chelsey There I first saw his late borne heire CHARLES but not finding the Duke I returned home where I found his servant seeking me I hastened with him and found him in the Court I related what I had done Feb. 14. I was with the Duke at his House almost three houres where with his owne hand c. He commanded me that I should adde some thing I obeyed his command and brought it the next day March 1. Being Saint Davids day there began a clamour in the lower House of Parliament against the Duke of Bukingham by name for staying a Ship called the St. Peter of Newhaven after sentence pronounced from that day there were perpetuall agitations in that House March 11. Docter Turner a Physition propounded in the House seaven questions commonly called Queres against the Duke of Buckingham yet grounded on no other foundation then what hee received as hee said from publike fame An. 1626. March 26. Sunday the Duke of Buckingham sent mee to the King there I acquainted the King with 2. busines which c. The most Gratious King gave me thankes March 29. King Charles made a speech to both Houses of Parliament both by himselfe and by the most Honourable Lord Keeper of the Great Seale in the Palace of White-Hall He reproved the Lower House for many
things Hee added many things concerning the Duke of Buckingham c. This speech of his was penned for him by this pragmaticall Bishop the Originall Coppie whereof was given in evidence against him under his owne hand In the Convocation held that day many things were agitated concerning the Sermon which Gabriell Goodman Bishop of Gloster preached before the King the fifth Sunday of Lent preceding Aprill 5. In the morning the King sent that the Bishops of Norwich Litchfield and Saint Davids should appeare before him I and the Bishop of Litchfield appeared the Bishop of Norwich was gone into the Countrie We received the Kings command about c. and returned Aprill 12. At nine a Clocke in the morning the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Winchester and I Bishop of Saint Davids met together being commanded by the King to consult about the Sermon which the Bishop of Glocester Doctor Goodman preached before the Kings Majestie on the fifth Sunday in Lent We consulted and gave answer to the King that some things were spoken lesse warily nothing falsly Neither was any thing innovated by him in the Church of England That it would be best he should preach againe at such time as he should chuse and should shew how and in what things he was ill taken and misunderstood by the Auditors That night after nine a clocke I related to the King what I received in command the fifth of Aprill and other things thereunto belonging The King spake many things most graciously concerning the restoring of Impropriations when as I should have first determined of the maner Aprill 14. the Duke of Buckingham fell into a Feaver Aprill 19. the Petition of Iohn Digby Earle of Bristoll against the D. of Buckingham was read in the upper House of Parliament It was sharpe and such as threatned destruction to one of the parties Aprill 20. King Charles referred the cognisance of the whole businesse and likewise of the Petition of the Earle of Bristoll to the Parliament house Aprill 21. the Duke of Buckingham sent for me to come to him Then I heard what Sir John Cooke principall Secretary to the King had suggested against me to the L. Treasurer of England and he to the Duke Domine miserere servi tui Aprill 22. Sunday the King sent that all the Bishops should attend him at 4. of the Clocke in the after noone we were foureteene of us present He reprehended us that we were silent in the causes of the Church in this time of Parliament and did not make knowne to him what might be profitable or unprofitable to the Church for that he was ready to promote the cause of the Church After this he Commanded that in the causes of Bristoll and Buckingham our Consciences being the guide we should follow only proofes not rumours Aprill 30. I preached at Whit-Hall before the King May 1. The Earle of Bristoll was accused of high Treason in Parliament by the Kings Atturney Sir Robert Heath The said Earle then and there exhibited 12. Articles against the Duke of Buckingham and accused him of the same crime and exhibited other Articles against Baron Conway Secretary The Earle of Bristoll was committed to Iames Maxwell Keeper of the blacke Rod May 8. at two of the Clock in the afternoon the lower House impeached the Duke of Buckingham to the upper House saying 13. accusations to his charge The Bishop though then a Member of the upper House and a Judge of this cause was yet such a sworne Vassall to the Duke that he penned his speech which he made to the Lords in the upper House against the Commons impeachment and corrected and amended his Answer to his Impeachment as his feed Advocate in sundry particulers given against him in evidence under his owne hand And likewise penned the Kings speech to the House of Peeres touching the Duke and the Commitment of the Earle of Arundell as appeares by the Originall draught under his hand concerning which speech he thus writes in his Diary May 11. King Charles came to the Parliament House He spake to the Nobles in few words concerning the preservation of the honour of Noble men against the vile and detestable calumnies of those of the Lower House who accused the Duke c. There were eight who discharged their allotted parts in that businesse The Prologue Sir Dudley Diggs and Epilogue Sir Iohn Eliot This day they were both by the Kings Command committed to the Tower and both of them enlarged within few dayes May 25. Because the E. of Arundell then under restraint was not sent back to the House nor the Cause of his commitment revealed there grew suspition that the Priviledges were infringed and it was concluded amongst the Peeres to adjourne the House till the next day On which day May 26. they adjourned the House till the second of Iune resolving that they would do nothing till the Earl were restored or at least a cause of his commitment declared c. May 25. this day wherein these tumults were first moved was Pope Vrbans day at this time Vrban the 8. sits Pope Iune 15. after many agitations private malice against the D. of Buckingham prevailed and suffocated all publike businesses nothing is done but the Parliament dissolved Iune 20. King Charles nominated me to be Bishop of Bath and Wells and likewise enjoyned me to preach at the solemne Fast before him which I did at White-Hall Iuly the 5. Iuly 26. The King signed my Congedeslier to the Deane and Chapter of Wells to elect me Bishop of Bath and Wells Iuly 27. Doctor Field Bishop of Landaffe brought me certaine Letters from the most illustrous Duke of Buckingham the Letters were open and written partly in Carecters the Duke sent them to me that I should consult one called Swadling about them who could read the Characters August 4. I and Swadling went to the Duke he read the Letters which were certaine malicious things which the Duke contemned August 16. I was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells it was Wednesday and the letter D. August 25. Two Robin-red-breasts flew together through the dore into my Study as pursuing one the other that suddaine motion made me startle I let them out as they had entered I was then preparing a Sermon on Eph. 4.30 September 14. in the evening the Duke of Buckingham said that I should reduce certaine instructions into forme partly politicall partly Ecclesiasticall in the cause of the King of Denmarke a little before afflicted by Duke Tilly to be sent through all Parishes Most breife heades are delivered to me he would have them ready by Saturday following September 16. I prepared and brought them by the prefixed houre I read them he brought me to the King There being commanded I read them once againe both of them approve them September 17 Sunday they were proposed and read for I left the papers with the Duke before the Kings Majesties honourable Councell and thanks be to God they
to be attendant observant and obedient to you and every of you in the execution and performance of this our Royall Will and Command as they and every of them will answer the contrarie at their uttermost perills Neverthelesse wee doe hereby declare our Royall pleasure to bee That they the said Sir Henry Marten Sir Charles Caesar Sir Thomas Ridley and Nathaniell Brent in their severall Offices and places aforesaid and all other Registers Officers and Ministers in the severall Courts Offices and Jurisdictions appertaining to the said Archbishop shall quietly and without interruption hold use occupie and enjoy their severall Offices and Places which they now hold by the Grant of the said Archbishop or of any other former Archbishop of Canterbury in such manner and forme and with those benefits priviledges powers and authorities which they now have hold and enjoy therein or there out severally and respectively they and every of them in their severall places being attendant and obedient unto you the said George Bishop of London Richard Bishop of Durham John Bishop of Rochester John Bishop of Oxford and William Bishop of Bath and Wells or to any foure three or two of you in all things according to the Tenor of this our Commission as they should or ought to have beene unto the said Archbishop Himselfe if this Commission had not beene had or made IN WITNESSE whereof wee have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witnesse Our selfe at Westminster the ninth Day of October in the third yeare of Our Raigne Edmondes Per ipsum Regem Octo. The Dean of Canterburies speech that the businesse could not goe well in the Isle of Re there must be a Parliament some must be sacrificed that I was as like as any spoken to Doctor W. The same speech after spoken to the same man by Sir Dudly Diggs I tould it when I heard it doubled let me desire you not to trouble your selfe with any reports till you see me forsake my other friends c. Ita Ch. R. The retreat out of the Isle of Re November My Lord D. returned to Court The Countesse of Purbecke censured in the High Commission for Adultery December 25. I preached to the K. at Whit-Hall Ianuary 29. Tuesday A resolution at the Councell Table for a Parliament to begin March 17. If the shires goe on with levying mony for the Navy Ianuary 30. Wednesday My L. D. of Buckinghams sonne was borne New Moone die 26. The L. George Feb. 5. Tuesday The straining of the backe sinew of my right leg as I went with his Majesty to Hampton Court I kept in til Feb. 14. saving that upon Tuesday Saint Valentines day I made a shift to goe and Christen my L.D. sonne the L. George at Wallingford House March 7. I preached at the opening of the Parliament but had much a doe to stand I continued lame long after Iune 1. An. 1628. Whitsunday I preached at Whit-Hall Iune 11. my L.D. of Buckingham voted in the House of Commons to be the cause or causes of all grievances in the Kingdome Iune 12. Thursday I was complaind of by the House of Commons for warranting D. Manwarings Sermons to the Presse Iune 13. D. Manwaring answered for himselfe before the Lords and the next day being Saturday Iune 14. was censured after his censure my cause was called to the report The same day the house of Commons were making their Remonstrance to the King One head was Innovation of Religion therein they named my Lord the Bishop of Winchester and my selfe one in the House stood up and said now we have named these Persons le ts thinke of some causes why we did it Sir Edward Cooke answered have we not named my Lord of Buckingham without shewing a cause and may we not be as bold with them This Remonstrance was delivered to the King Tuesday Iune 17. Thursday Iune 26. the session of Parliament ended and was proroged to Oct. 20. Tuesday Iuly 1. my conge deslier was signed by the King for the Bishopprick of London Iuly 15. Saint Swithin and faire with us I was translated to the Bishoprick of London the same day the L. Weston was made Lord Treasurer Saturday August 9. A terrible salt rhume in my left eye had almost put me into a Feaver Tuesday August 12. my L. D. of Buckingham went towards Portsmouth to goe for Rochell Saturday August 23. Saint Bartholemews Eve the D. of Buckingham slaine at Portsmouth by one Leiutenant Felton about 9. in the morning August 24. The newes of his death came to Croyden where it found my selfe and the Bishops of Winchester Elye and Carlile at the consecration of Bishop Mountague for Chichester with my Lords Grace What a professed Votary and Creature this Bishop was to the D. of Buckingham will appeare by these his speciall Prayers for him written with his owne hand in his booke of privat Prayers and Devotions found in his Chamber at the Tower P. 164.165.166 much used as is evident by the fouleing of the leaves with his fingers Pro Duce Buckinghamiae GRacious Father I humbly beseech thee blesse the * Duke of Buckingham with all spirituall and temporall blessings but especially spirituall make and continue him faithfull to his Prince serviceable to his Country devout in thy truth and Church A most happy Husband and a blessed Father filled with the constant love and honour of his Prince that all thy blessings may flow upon himselfe and his posterity after him Continue him a true-hearted freind to me thy poore servant whom thou hast honoured in his eyes make my heart religious and dutifull to thee and in and under thee true and secret and stout and prudent in all things which he shall be pleased to commit unto me Even so Lord and make him continually to serve thee that thou maist blesse him Through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Amen That he was privy to his Iourney into Spaine with Prince Charles now our Soveraign which voyage was * purposly plotted to pervert him in his Religion and reconcile him to Rome is apparent by this insuing prayer annexed to the former O Most mercifull God and gratious Father the Prince hath put himselfe to a great adventure I humbly beseech thee make cleare way before him give thine Angells charge over him be with him thy selfe in mercy power and protection in every step of his Journey in every moment of his time in every consultation and addresse for Action till thou bring him backe with safety honour and contentment to doe thee service in this place BLesse his most trusty and faithfull servant the Lord Duke of Buckingham That he may be diligent in service provident in businesse wise and happy in Councell for the honour of thy name the good of the Church the preservation of the Prince the contentment of the King the satisfaction of the State preserve him I humbly beseech thee from all envy that attends him And
betweene the King and the Scottish Rebells God make it safe and Honourable to the King and the Kingdome Jun. 28. Friday I sent the remainder of my Manuscripts to Oxford being in number 576. and about 100. of them were Hebrew Greeke Arabicke and Persian I had formerly sent them above 700. Volumes Aug. 1. Thursday His Majestie came backe from his Northerne Journey to Theobalds and to White-Hall on Saturday Aug. 3. Many varieties since the Assembly held and ended in Scotland The Bishops thrust out the Parliament there sitting Oct. 11. and 12. Friday and Saturday the Spanish Navie was set upon by the Hollanders in the Downes The fight began to be hot when they were past Dover They were in all neare 60. Sayle The Spaniards suffered much in that fight not without our dishonour that they should begin the fight there But this is one of the effects of the Scottish dareings Munday December 2. A. Sh My Chirurgion in trust gave me great and unexpected ease in my great infirmitie But after the weakenesse continued Thursday Decemb. 5. The King declared His resolution for a Parliament in case of the Scottish Rebellion The first movers to it were my Lord Deputie of Ireland my L. M. Hamilton and my selfe And a resolution voted at the boord to assist the King in extraordinary wayes if the Parliament should prove peevish and refuse c. Friday Janu. 24. At night I dreamed that my Father who dyed 46. yeares since came to me and to my thinking he was as well and as cheerfull as ever I saw him He asked mee what I did there And after some speech I asked him how long hee would stay with me he answered he would stay till he had me along with him I am not moved with Dreames yet I thought fit to remember this Janu. 26. Sunday I received the Queenes Gracious assurance of Her favour in the businesse which His Majestie had committed to me with othess Aprill 13. 1640. Munday The Parliament sate downe called about the Rebellion of Scotland Aprill 14. Tuesday The Convocation began at Saint Paules Aprill 28. Friday The hot contestation in the Lords House which should have praecedence the Kings supply or the Subjects greivances voted in the upper house for the King May 5. Thursday The Parliament ended and nothing done the Convocation continued May 9. Saturday A paper pasted upon the Old Exchange animating Prentises to sacke my house upon the Munday following early May 11. Munday night at midnight my house at Lambeth was beset with 500 persons of the Rascall Routous multitude I had notice strengthened the house as well as I cold God be blessed I had no harme since I have got Canons fortified my house as well as I can hope all may be safe But yet Libells are continually set up in all places of note in the City May 21. Thursday One of the Chiefe being taken was condemned at Southwark hanged quartered on Saturday morning following May 13. but before this May 15. some of these mutinus people came in the day time and brake the White-Lyon Prison and let loose their fellowes both out of that Prison and the Kings Bench and the other Prisoners also out of the White-Lyon May 29. Friday The Convocation sate after the ending of the Parliament till May 29. and then ended having made in that time 17. Canons which I hope will be usefull to the Church May 29. The Bishop of Glocester Godfrey Goodman suspended for notorious scandall to the Church in refusing First to subscribe to the Canons and after to professe a reservation Hee had long before beene suspected as inclining to popery The Canons were all Voted Nemine Dissentiente Save this Bishop who had in generall consented before July 10. Friday I tooke my Oath to the new Canons at the Councell Table and so did my Lord Bishop of London and after him the Bishop of Glocester submitted himselfe and tooke the Oath and was released out of prison by the Kings command July 22. I Christned the Kings young sonne Henry at Oatlands the Queene was there happily delivered of him on Wednesday July 8. being the day of the solemn Fast about 6. of the Clocke in the Evening Aug. 20. Thursday His Majestie took his journey towards the North in hast upon information that the Scots were entred the Munday before into England and ment to be at New-Castle by Saturday Aug. 22. Saturday a Libell was brought mee found in Coven-Garden animating the Apprentices and Souldiers to fall upon mee in the Kings absence Septem. 21. I received a Letter from one Iohn Rocket a name and person unknowne to me He was among the Scotts as he travelled through the Bishopricke of Durham he heard them enveigh and raile at me exceedingly and they hoped shortly to see me as the Duke was slaine by one least suspected His Letter and advise to me to looke to my selfe Sept. 24. A great Councell of the Lords were called by the King to York to consider what way was best to be taken to get out the Scotts and this day the meeting began at Yorke and continued till October 28. Octo. 22. Thursday the High Commission sitting at Saint Pauls because of the troubles of the times very neere 2000. Brownists made a tumult at the end of the Court toare downe all the Benches in the Consistorie And cryed out they would have no Bishop nor no High Commission October 22. Tuesday Simon and Judes Eve I went into my upper studdie to see some Manuscripts which I was sending to Oxford In that studdie hung my picture taken by the life and comming in I found it fallen downe upon the face and lying on the flowre the string being broken by which it was hanged against the wall I am almost every day threatned with my Ruine in Parliament God grant this be no OMEN Tuesday the Parliament began the King did not ride but went by water to kings staires and thorough Westminster Hall to the Church and so to the House Wednesday the Convocation began at Saint Paules Wednesday Thomas Viscount Wentworth Earle of Strafford accused to the Lords by the House of Commons for high Treason and restrained to the Vsher of the House Wednesday November 22. He was sent to the Tower December 2. Wednesday a great debate in the House that no Bishop should be so much as of the Committee for preparatory Examinations in this Cause as accounted Causa sanguinis put of till the next day December 3. Thursday the debate declined Friday December 4. The King gave way that His Councell should be examined upon Oath in the Earle of Straffords Case I was examined this day Wednesday Decem. 16. The Canons condemned in the House of Commons as being against the Kings Prerogative the fundamentall Lawes of the Realme the libertie and proprietie of the Subject and containing diverse other things tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence Vpon
this I was made the Author of them and a Committee put upon mee to enquire into all my Actions to prepare a charge The same morning in the upper House I was named an Incendiarie by the Scottish Commissioners and a complaint promised to be drawne up by to morrow Friday Decemb. 18. I was accused by the House of Commons for high Treason with out any particular charge laid against me which they said should be prepared in convenient time Master Hollys was the man that brought up the Message to the Lords Soone after the charge was brought into the upper House by the Scots Commissioners tending to prove me an Incendiary upon which I was presently committed to the Gentleman Vsher I was permitted to goe in his company to Lambeth for a booke or two to read in and such papers as pertained to my defence against the Scots I stayed at * Lambeth till the evening to avoyd the Gazing of the people I went to Evening Prayer in my Chapell The Psalmes of the day 93. and 94. and Chap. 50. of Isay gave me great comfort God make me worthy of it and fit to receive it December 21. I was fined 500. pounds in the Parliament house and Sir Iohn Lambe and Sir Henry Martin 250. pounds a peece for keeping Sir Robert Howard close Prisoner in the case of the escape of the Lady Vicountesse Purbecke out of the Gate-house which Lady he kept lewdly and had Children by her in such a Case say the Imprisonment were more then the Law alowed what may be done for honour and Religion sake Wednesday the Lords ordered me to pay the money presently which was done I was forced to sell Plate to repay where I borrowed it Thursday A Parliament man of good note interessed in divers Lords sent me word that by reason of my patient and moderate carriage since my Commitment foure Earles of great power in the upper House told him that the Lords were not now so sharpe against me as they were at first And that now they were resolved only to sequester me from the Kings Councell and to put me from my Arch-Bishopricke So I see what Iustice I may exspect since here is a resolution taken not only before my Answere but before my Charge was brought up against me February 14. Sunday A. R. And this if I live and continue Arch-Bishop of Canterbury till after Michaelmas day come twelvmonth Anno 1642. God blesse me in this Friday Feb. 26. This day I had been full 10. weekes in restraint at Master Maxwells House and this day being Saint Augustines day my charge was brought up from the House of Commons to the Lords by Sir Henry Vane the younger It consisted of 14. Articles These generall they craved time to prove in particular The Copy of this generall charge is among my papers I spake some thing to it and the Copy of that also is among my papers I had favour of the Lords not to goe to the Tower till the Munday following where he would by no meanes lye in the Lodgings in which the Bishop of Lincolne formerly lay during his imprisonment there though fittest for him March 1. I went in Master Maxwells Coach to the Tower no noyse till I came to the end of Cheapside But from thence to the Tower I was followed and railed at by the people and rabble in multitudes to the very Tower-Gates where I left them and I thanke God he made me patient March 9. Shrove-Tuesday c. was with me in the Tower and gave great engagements of his faith to me March 13. Saturday the Lord Brookes dined with the Lords at the New House built by the King at Lambeth three of the Lords in Boat together one of them saying hee was sorry for my commitment because the building of Saint Pauls went slow on the while The Lord Brooke replyed I hope one of us shall live to see no one stone left upon another of that building March 21. Munday a Committee for Religion setled in the upper House of Parliament 10. Earles 10. Bishops 10. Barons So the Lay-Votes will bee double to the Clergie This Committee will meddle with Doctrine as well as Ceremonies and will call some Divines to them to consider of the businesse as appeares by a Letter hereto annexed sent by the Lord Bishop of Lincolne to some Divines to attend this service upon the whole matter I believe this Committee will prove the Nationall Synod of England to the great dishonour of the Church And what else may follow upon it God knowes March 22. Munday The Earle of Straffords Tryall began in Westminster Hall and it continued till the end of Aprill taking in the variation of the House of Commons who after a long hearing drew a Bill of attainder against him A. Sh. performed his promise to the uttermost March 27. 1641 The King came into the upper House there declared before both houses how diligently he had harkened to all the proceedings with the E. of Strafford and found that his fault what ever it was could not amount to High Treason That if it went by Bill it must passe by him and that he could not with his conscience find him guilty nor would wrong his Conscience so farre but advised them to proceed by way of misdemeanour and he then would concurre with them the same day after the King was gone a Letter was read in the upper House from the Scottes in which they doe earnestly desire to be gone It was moved for a present Conference with the House of Commons about it the debate about it was very short yet the Commons were risen before hand May 12. Wednesday The Earle of Strafford beheaded upon Tower-Hill Iune 23. Wednesday I acquainted the King by my Lord of London that I would resigne my Chauncellorship of Oxford and why June 25. Friday I sent downe my resignation of the Chancellorship of Oxford to be published in Convocation Iuly 1 Thursday This was done and the Earle of Pembrooke chosen Chauncellor by joynt consent August 10. Tuesday The King went Post into Scotland the Parliament sitting and the Armies not yet dissolved September 23. Thursday Master Adam Torles my Ancient loveing and faithfull servant then my Steward after he had served me full 42. yeares dyed to my great losse and griefe October 23. The Lords in Parliament sequestred my Jurisdiction to my inferior Officers and ordered that I should give no benefice without acquainting them first to whom I would give it that so they might approve This order was sent me on Tuesday November 2. in the afternoone November 1. Newes came to the Parliament of the troubles in Ireland the King being then in Scotland where there were troubles enough also November 25. Thursday the King at his returne from Scotland was sumptuously entertained in London and great joy on all hands God prosper it December 30. Thursday the Archbishop of Yorke and 11. Bishops more sent to the Tower
out to buy provision Novem. 24. Thursday the Souldiers at Lambeth House brake open the Chappell doore and offer red violence to the Organs but before much hurt was done the Captaines heard of it and stayed them Friday Decemb. 2. Some of the Kings Forces taken at Faruham about 100. of them brought in Carts to London tenne Carts full their legs bound they were sufficiently rayled upon in the streets Munday Decemb. 19. My Petition for Mr. Conniers to have the Vicaridge of Horstam before it came to be delivered the House had made an Order against him upon complaint from Horstam of his disorderly life so I petition for my Chaplaine Master William Brackston refused yet Dece 24. St. Thomas Day This day in the morning my young Dun Horse was taken away by warrant under the hands of Sir John Evelyn Master Pym and Master Martin Decemb. 23. Thursday Docter Layton came with a warrant from the House of Commons for the Keyes of my house to be delivered to him and more prisoners to be brought thither c. Such as would not serve the King were sent back with an oath given them Janu. 5. A finall order from both Houses for setling of Lambeth prison c. Thursday all my Wood and Coales spent or to be spent there not reserving in the order that I shall have any for my owne use nor would that motion be harkened to January 6. Friday Epiphanie Earle of Manchesters Letter from the House to give Allhallowes Bred-street to Master Seaman January 26. Thursday The Bill passed the Lords House for abolishing Episcopacie c. Feb. 3. Friday Doctor Heath came to perswade me to give Chartam to Master Corbet c. Febr. 14. Tuesday I received a Letter dated January 17. from his Majestie to give Chartam to Master Redding or Lapse it to him That afternoone the Earle of Warwicke came to me and brought me an Order of the House to give it to one Master Culmer This Order bare date Feb. 4. Saturday Feb. 25. Master Culmer came to me about it I told him I had given my Lord my answer Thursday March 2. St. Ceddes day The Lord Brooke shot in the left eye and killed in the place at Litchfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he having ever beene fierce against Bishops and Cathedralls His Bever up and armed to the knee so that a musket at that distance could have done him but little harme Thus was his eye put out who about two yeares since said hee hoped to â—â—e to see at Saint Pauls not one stone left upon another March 10. Friday This night preceding I dreamed a warrant was sent to free mee and that I spake with Master Lieutenant that may Warder might keepe the Keyes of my lodging till I had got some place for my selfe and my stuffe since I could not goe to Lambeth I waked and slept againe and had the very same dreame a second time Munday March 20. The Lord of Northumberland Master Parpoint Sir John Holland Sir William Ermin and Master Whitlock went from both Houses to treat of peace with His Majestie God of His mercy blesse it and us March 24. Friday one Master Foord told mee he is a Suffolke man that there was a plot to send mee and Bishop Wrenn as Delinquents to New-England within 14. dayes and that Wells a Minister that came thence offerd wagers of it The meeting was at Master Parkes a Mercers House in Friday-Street being this Foords son in Law I never saw Master Foord before March 28. 1643. Tuesday Another Order from the Lords to give Chartam to one Master Edward Hudson My answer as before Aprill 11. Tuesday An other order for the same and very peremptorie this came to me Aprill 12. Whereupon I petitioned the House Thursday Aprill 13. my former answer being wilfully mistaken by Hudson That very day another Order very quicke which was brought to mee Friday Aprill 14. I petitioned the House againe the same day with great submission but could not disobey the King Apr. 12. Another Order to collate Chartam on Master Ed. Corbet brought to me Satur Aprill 22. I gave my answer as before but in as soft termes as I could Munday Apr. 24. Tuesday Aprill 25. It was moved in the House of Commons to send me to New-England But it was rejected the plot was laid by Peters Wells and others Munday May 1. My Chappell Windowes at Lambeth defaced and the steps torne up May 2. Tuesday the Crosse in Cheapside taken downe May 9. Tuesday all my goods seized upon Books and all The feasers were Cap. Guest Layghton and Dickins The same day an order for further restraint of me not to goe out of it without my keeper This order was brought to mee May 10. Tuesday May 16. An order of both Houses for the disposing of my Benefices c. voyd or to be voyd this order was brought to me Wednesday May 17. at night Me thinkes I see a cloud rising over mee about Chartam businesse there having beene a rumour twice that I shall be removed to a prison lodging May 23. Tuesday I sent my petition for maintenance This day the Queene was voted a Traitor in the Commons House Saturday May 29. Another Order to collate Edward Corbet to Chartham It was brought to me Friday May 26. I answered it Munday May 27. as before Thus farre the Bishop proceeded in his Diary which had an unexpected period put unto it being seized on in his Pocket by Master Prynne in the Tower May 31. 1643 By vertue of this warrant unexpectedly sent unto him from the close-Committee by a Member of the Commons House with unavoydable strict commands to put it in diligent execution the next morning 30. May 1643. At the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for the safetie of the Kingdome BY vertue of an Order of both Houses of Parliament these are to authorise and require you to repaire unto Colonell Manwaring at the Guild-Hall to morrow morning about 4. of the clocke and to receive from him tenne foote Souldiers appointed to attend and assist you in the service hereafter mentioned And you are further required and authorized with the Souldiers before mentioned to repaire unto the Tower of London and there to search all the prisoners remaining under restraint by Order of either of the Houses of Parliament or of this Committee and to seize upon all Letters and Papers and to see them put into some safe place to be perused by such as shall be thereunto authorized And you are forthwith to certifie us what you shall have done in execution hereof and in the meane time so to sever and restraine their persons that they speake not one with another nor with any other that thereupon some further order and direction may be given And the said Colonell Manwaring as also the Lieutenant of the Tower and all other His Majesties Officers and loving subjects are hereby required to be ayding and
through the remainder of my life And this for thy own goodnes sake and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ Amen After all this Decemb. 18. 1640. He was accused by the House of Commons of High-Treason as well he deserved upon which he composed this prayer wherein he most arrogantly pleades his innocency before God though hee appeares most criminall and guiltie to the eyes of most men O Eternall God and mercifull Father I humbly beseech thee looke downe upon me in this time of my great and grievous affliction Lord if it bee thy blessed will make my innocencie appeare and free both me and my profession from all scandall thus raised on me And however if thou be pleased to try me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me full patience proportionable comfort contentment with whatsoever thou sendest and a heart ready to dye for thy Honour the Kings Happinesse and this Churches preservation And my zeale to these is all the sinne humane frailtie excepted which is yet known to me in this particular for which I thus suffer Lord look upon me in mercy and for the merits of Jesus Christ pardon all my sins many and great which have drawne downe this judgment upon mee and then in all things doe with me as seemes best in thine owne eyes And make me not onely patient under but thankefull for whatsoever thou doest O Lord my strength and my Redeemer AMEN His speciall prayers made upon sundry publike occasions registred with his owne hand in his * Booke of devotions were all formerly printed and read in Churches the two last of them against the Scots being most memorable are only necessary to be here recorded he being the * Arch-Incendiarie against them O Eternall God and mercifull Father by whom alone Kings Raigne thou Lord of Hosts and giver of all victorie Wee humbly beseech thee to gard Our most Gracious Soveraigne Lord KING CHARLES To blesse him in His person with health and safetie in His Councells with wisdome and prudence and in all His actions with Honour and good successe Grant blessed Lord that Victorie may attend His designes and that His Liege people may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the face of thine and His Treacherous enemies Give him blessed Father so to settle His Subjects in Peace and the true feare of thy Divine Majestie that Hee may returne with joy and honour and proceed long to governe his Kingdomes in * Peace and plentie and in the happinesse of true Religion and Pietie all his dayes These blessings and whatsoever else shall bee necessary for him or for our selves Wee humbly begge of thee O mercifull Father for Jesus Christ His sake Our only Mediator and Redeemer AMEN O Eternall God Mercifull Father by whom alone Kings raign thou Lord of Hosts and giver of all Victory Wee humbly beseech thee both now and ever to guide and preserve Our most Gracious Soveraigne Lord KING CHARLES To blesse him in his Person with health and safetie in His Councells with wisdome and prudence and in all his actions with honour and good successe Especially against those his traiterous Subjects who having cast off all Obedience to their Anoynted Soveraigne doe at this time in rebellious manner invade this Realme Grant blessed LORD that victory may attend His Majesties designes that His Liege people may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the face of thine and his Treacherous enemies Inable him blessed Father so to vanquish and subdue them all that His Loyall Subjects being setled in Peace and the true feare of thy Holy Name He may returne with joy and honour and continue to governe His Kingdome in peace and plentie and in the happinesse of true Religion and Pietie all his dayes These blessings and whatsoever else shall be necessary for him we humbly begge of thee O mermercifull Father for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Redeemer AMEN These prayers were strictly enjoyned to be daily read in Churches and were so by the Prelaticall party with greatest Zeale and devotion and many Godly Ministers were questioned pursevanted suspended for not reading them Since his Imprisonment in the Tower he received severall letters from the King under the privy signet and other Malignants in opposition to the Parliament and some proceedings in it take one or two instead of many Charles Rex MOst reverend Father in God and right trusty and right welbeloved We greet you well We are informed that Doctor Isaak Bargrave Dean of our Cathedrall of Cant. is very lately deceased by his death the Parsonage of Chartham neere Cant. become voyde Many good motives and reasons have graciously inclined Vs to favour therewith Iohn Reading Clark now beneficed at Dover in Our Country of Kent but deprived as we understand of the small lively-hood he had thence accrewing by the perverse disposition of some of his turbulent Parishioners Wherefore we very earnestly desire you to bestow the said Parsonage of Chartham upon the said Iohn Reading or at the least that if you shall be restrained from so doing by either or both Houses of Parliament you then forbeare to present any other to the same that so the said Parsonage lapsing into our guift We may as We intend conferre it on him This We are confident of from you both in regard of the persons worthinesse and sufferings and that We shal therein receive very good content and satisfaction Given at Our Court at Oxford the 27th of January 1642. To the most Reverend Father in God our right trustie and right welbeloved Councellor William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace These directions of his Majesty he punctually observed as appeares by his Diary February 3. 14. 25. An. 1642. and March 28. Aprill 11. 13. 14. 21. 22 1643. Other Letters he received from his Majesty for the speedy payment of his first fruits to his Officers to which he returned an Answere under his owne hand And this ensuing letter from the Lady Aubigny a grand Malignant after the slaughter of her Husband in a fight against the Parliament My Lord THe former letter J sent your Grace was written before J knew what great affliction God had laid upon me by the unfortunat losse of my deare Lord whereby I am made unfit to stir abroad to receive them or any other comfort and this Gentleman for the most part being at Cambridge since this miserable accident hath been the true cause I have not importuned your Grace to know if there can be any thing done in this businesse till J wait upon you which shall be as soone as J am fit to appeare in any place for as yet I confesse I cannot be so much my selfe to overcome my passion though I know my Lord dyed in a * just and honourable action and that I hope his soule finds which consideration is the only satisfaction of Your Graces humble servant Kath. Aubigny Ianuary 2. Comming from so distracted